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Methods W.P. PUTRAJAYA GSHS 2012

iv. Physical Activity
Physical activity : any activity that increases the heart rate and
makes one breathe hard. Examples of physical
activities include sports, playing with friends,
walking to school, running, fast walking, biking or
dancing.
Physically active : physically active for at least 60 minutes per day, for
a minimum of ^ve days per week (sum of all the
time spent in any kind of physical activity each
day).
Sedentary behaviour : spent at least three hours or more per day during
a typical or usual day sitting and watching
television, playing computer games, talking with
friends, or doing other sitting activities.

v. Protective Factors
Truancy : missed class or school without permission for at
least one day in the past 30 days.
Peer support : students in their school were kind and helpful
most of the time or always during the past 30 days.
Parental or guardian supervision : parents or guardians had always or most of the
time, checked to see if their homework was done
in the past 30 days.
Parental or guardian connectedness : parents or guardians had always or most of the
time, understood their problems and worries in the
past 30 days.
Parental or guardian bonding : parents or guardians had always or most of the
time, really knew what they were doing with their
free time in the past 30 days.
Parental or guardian respect for : parents or guardians had never or rarely went
privacy through their things without their approval in the
past 30 days.

vi. Sexual Behaviour
Sexual intercourse : sexual acts of penetration of penis into vagina or
anus.

vii. Smoking
Current smoker : smoke cigarette or other tobacco products on one
or more days in the past 30 days.
Other tobacco products : tobacco products other than cigarettes including
shisha/hookah, electronic cigarettes, snu\,
chewing tobacco, pipes, curut, cigars, cigarillos or
bidis.

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